The NFL's Official Change to What Is A Catch: Dez Bryant play rule rewritten *merge*

[blindzebra]

Tweets combined from Mike Pereira on the rule change:

Dez Bryant play..rule rewritten. New word like "initial" contact with ground. Football move is gone. Bottom line its clearly incomplete Here is the rule. it will take a few tweets.

"A player is considered to be going to the ground if he does not remain upright long enough...to demonstrate that he is clearly a runner. If a player goes to the ground in the act of catching a pass(with or without contact by an opponent),he must maintain control of the ball until after his initial contact with the ground, whether in the field of play or the End zone. If he loses control of the ball and the ball touches the ground before he regains control, the pass is incomplete. If he regains control prior to the ball touching the ground, the pass is complete."

There you have it. Now are you less confused?

My take:

So they changed the ambiguous move common to the game to an extremely vague upright long enough to fix it. What a load of crap. They took away everything that made it a catch and replaced it with a ridiculous term that has no clear cut boundaries. Clearly this show without any doubt that Blandino, because of the heat he got from the Detroit game and the re-surfacing of the party bus, had no intentions of having any reviews go for Dallas in that GB game. It was rigged and they changed a poorly written rule into a more confusing one, just so the rule fits the overturn.

 

[Little Jr]

Tweets combined from Mike Pereira on the rule change:

Dez Bryant play..rule rewritten. New word like "initial" contact with ground. Football move is gone. Bottom line its clearly incomplete Here is the rule. it will take a few tweets.

"A player is considered to be going to the ground if he does not remain upright long enough...to demonstrate that he is clearly a runner. If a player goes to the ground in the act of catching a pass(with or without contact by an opponent),he must maintain control of the ball until after his initial contact with the ground, whether in the field of play or the End zone. If he loses control of the ball and the ball touches the ground before he regains control, the pass is incomplete. If he regains control prior to the ball touching the ground, the pass is complete."

There you have it. Now are you less confused?

My take:

So they changed the ambiguous move common to the game to an extremely vague upright long enough to fix it. What a load of crap. They took away everything that made it a catch and replaced it with a ridiculous term that has no clear cut boundaries. Clearly this show without any doubt that Blandino, because of the heat he got from the Detroit game and the re-surfacing of the party bus, had no intentions of having any reviews go for Dallas in that GB game. It was rigged and they changed a poorly written rule into a more confusing one, just so the rule fits the overturn.

Lmao. Yes it's a conspiracy. The nfl hates us.

 

[nathanlt]

Oh wow, even after rewriting the rule, Dez still caught the ball for the 2015-16 version of it. Let's see, Dez kept control of the ball after INITIAL CONTACT with the ground, for a full second, to boot. The initial contact?

Dez's first step. Not to mention he had 2 additional steps and both elbows down with no ball movement.

Blandino STILL can't put into writing how to take that catch away from Dez, 6 months later!

 

[Doomsay]

All they do is demonstrate their complicity in trying to throw the GB game with this re-re-re-wright.

 

[DogFace]

The wording "until after his initial contact with the ground" is odd. How long ? .5 second? Full second? 2? 5? 10?...

It's as vague as how many steps before he becomes a runner was.

 

[iceberg]

this all seems vaguely familiar.

 

[Silver N Blue]

We all hate it, we all know the truth, we all get sick every time we revisit this topic. My take; 2015 is on the doorstep lets turn the page and get ready for the upcoming season. I will tell you this the city is buzzing with anticipation of the upcoming season!

 

[Staubacher]

They can still rig games with this rule"change". Mission accomplished

 

[aikemirv]

They just need to go back to 2 feet and control of the ball. It was simple, clear and in reality the essense of a catch. Anybody who has played football knows what a catch is and what is not. While 2 feet really has no bearing on possesion of a ball it was clear and simple and no one argued with it and their was no room for interpretation.

Dez caught the ball. Calvin caught all of those that he immediately dropped on the ground. They take a simple act in football and make it some convoluted mess. The tuck rule is another example of a simple fumble turned into a interpretation. Football is not that complicated!!!

 

[Screw The Hall]

At the end of the day there is no way to contain the spirit of a rule such as "what is a catch" in a written format only. We like to compare plays like the Calvin Johnson and Dez plays as if they were identical. They were not even close to the same. Trying to judge both religiously by the same text is hogwash. The text part of a rule should only serve as a base guideline that 95% of plays can be judged by easily. For the other 5% you are going to need to trust the eyes of trained professionals to do their job.

I find it fascinating that there are people who think they can legislate what hardcore fans know is a catch based on their 30+ years of watching, playing, breathing, and living football by changing the way a rule is worded. That is utterly ridiculous. Most fans know what a catch is when they see one. They absolutely know it and you can't change that. In this case you have an overwhelming majority of football fans that believe they saw a catch. If your rule flies in the face of that undeniable truth then either your rule is faulty or the interpretation of it is ... period.

 

[rynochop]

Can someone tell me at what point exactly was dezs catch considered incomplete?

 

[burmafrd]

At the end of the day there is no way to contain the spirit of a rule such as "what is a catch" in a written format only. We like to compare plays like the Calvin Johnson and Dez plays as if they were identical. They were not even close to the same. Trying to judge both religiously by the same text is hogwash. The text part of a rule should only serve as a base guideline that 95% of plays can be judged by easily. For the other 5% you are going to need to trust the eyes of trained professionals to do their job.

I find it fascinating that there are people who think they can legislate what hardcore fans know is a catch based on their 30+ years of watching, playing, breathing, and living football by changing the way a rule is worded. That is utterly ridiculous. Most fans know what a catch is when they see one. They absolutely know it and you can't change that. In this case you have an overwhelming majority of football fans that believe they saw a catch. If your rule flies in the face of that undeniable truth then either your rule is faulty or the interpretation of it is ... period.

absolutely dead on. You notice the crickets from the famous and otherwise WRs on that play- except the ones that came right out and said it was a catch? If you have watched football for years you KNOW what is a catch and what is not. So do the refs. The only ones oblivious to this reality is the morons in the NFL front office that pushed for more stupid rules that just cause more problems then they ever solve.

 

[DogFace]

Can someone tell me at what point exactly was dezs catch considered incomplete?

Kjj will be here shortly with his/her infinite wisdom.

 

[Yakuza Rich]

It tells me that they know that Dez's catch was complete and they made a mistake. So instead of just admitting that, they had to change the wording of the rule. And the 'long enough' wording is idiotic. The fact is that at the very worst the replay was inconclusive (and I think that is a stretch) and they should not have overturned the play because it was inconclusive. And I actually believe if they had let the catch be a catch, even Packers fans would not have an issue with it.

Maybe that clown Blandino can take time from his busy schedule of putting the Grecian Hair Formula for men and explain how the catch made by a Packers receiver before the half where the tip of the ball not only hit the ground once, but twice...was a catch.





YR

 

[Frozen700]

It was incomplete.

Regardless if it wasn't, we are crying about an issue that shouldn't have happened. Romo trying to Force it to Dez in a desperate attempt, shouldn't have happened. Blame the Bum Murray for his fumble in the first place on what looked to be a promising drive.

Then T-Will not being able to beat his single coverage.

We were doomed from the start.

 

[iceberg]

Can someone tell me at what point exactly was dezs catch considered incomplete?

when the official ruling came down on the field.

been a crapstorm ever since.

 

[rynochop]

Kjj will be here shortly with his/her infinite wisdom.

I.m on his infamous unfollow FAN list, so he wont see it.lol

 

[rynochop]

when the official ruling came down on the field.

been a crapstorm ever since.

Ha, ok, from the ref.s perspective when he was under the hood

 

[cowboyblue22]

staubacher is right they can still change games to get the result that they want in games with this rule. the old rule was bogus so they had to change something to cover up .

 

[DogFace]

I.m on his infamous unfollow FAN list, so he wont see it.lol

Me too!!! You must've been very mean to him. He's sensitive.